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*Public support for unilateralism in September 1982 was 31%, falling to 21% in January 1983, but it is hard to say whether this decline was a result of the contemporary propaganda campaign against CND or not.<ref name=Caedel/>
*Support for CND fell after the end of the Cold war. It had not succeeded in converting the British public to unilateralism and even after the collapse of the Soviet Union British nuclear weapons still have majority support.<ref name=Caedel/> "Unilateral disarmament has always been opposed by a majority of the British public, with the level of support for unilateralism remaining steady at around one in four of the population."<ref name=carter/><ref name=byrom>Andy Byrom, "British attitudes on nuclear weapons", ''Journal of Public Affairs'', 7: 71-77, 2007.</ref>
*In 2005, [[MORI]] conducted an opinion poll which asked about attitudes to Trident and the use of nuclear weapons. When asked whether the UK should replace Trident, without being told of the cost, 44% of respondents said "Yes" and 46% said "No". When asked the same question and told of the cost, the proportion saying "Yes" fell to 33% and the proportion saying "No" increased to 54%.<ref name=MORI>[http://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Archive/Polls/greenpeace.pdf "British Attitudes to Nuclear Weapons"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103235126/http://www.ipsos-mori.com/Assets/Docs/Archive/Polls/greenpeace.pdf |date=2012-01-03 }}</ref>
*In the same poll, [[MORI]] asked "Would you approve or disapprove of the UK using nuclear weapons against a country we are at war with?". 9% approved if that country did not have nuclear weapons, and 84% disapproved. 16% approved if that country had nuclear weapons but never used them, and 72% disapproved. 53% approved if that country used nuclear weapons against the UK, and 37% disapproved.<ref name=MORI/>
*CND's policy of opposing American nuclear bases is said to be in tune with public opinion.<ref name=hinton>James Hinton "Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament", in Roger S.Powers, ''Protest, Power and Change'', Taylor and Francis, 1997, p. 63, {{ISBN|0-8153-0913-9}}</ref>
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